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10/12/2012 12:00PM

Consumer Confidence Hits Five-Year High

Consumers’ feelings about the economy brightened to their highest level in five years in early October; Abraham Lincoln is still America's favorite President; Can a videogame make you a better dancer? Inside the homes of college coaches. Photo: AP.

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... I ... today on the beest lunch break to new Xbox three sixty days since the game is out next week and dies it may save your relationship will be talking about that ... also a wicked automation segment at the houses of colleagues coach is they are so tricked out ... they can make them hard to sell plus there are sixteen thousand weekend books on the market ... but more coming as well as in the to be talking about that as well of ninety thousand welcome to the show ... consumer sentiment at the two eight by eight year high the stock market in early bomb though it's mostly given up those gains were talking right now Kathleen Madigan ... of Dow Jones Newswires reports on the economy ... this isn't some pretty robust numbers out today yet who is on an amazingly high it's the it's back up to ... it that every two thousandseven ... The before it the last recession ... I have the same skeptical ... about them I think consumers may be ... said that some twenty percent a drop of me and planted some twenty percent tenement her belated that it's going to continue down that much ... and I just don't see I think their spirit is getting high and reality let's explain um what actually goes into consumer sentiment what are we talking about there what are they way when they come up with this number tackle on this and then I asked actually Astle of our questions than the other consumer confidence which is the other monthly report ... um ... you know they actually weigh in and people Heidi filled government policy and reserve policy ... have you heard ... good news or bad news about the labor market is deepening the employment and fall they often ask about what you think inflation and to um ... and that's another it inflation expectations actually fell ... even though we know gas prices remain very high and I just thought that that was a very weird ... reading this using his gas prices that cyclical into the holiday shopping season continued to weigh on consumer spending there is the flip side thinking which says that you know some people are forgetting ... we're getting used to these higher prices driver started factor that and are buying decisions ... and that you know that may not be so the thing that's driving this anymore when you say you're right and the new normal is ... new for dollar gasoline ... aam but then Neena economist it cautioned that the that ... an increase in consumer sentiment ... doesn't ... translate immediately into short right in thinking and consumer spending is actually a better outlook for next year ... to see her saying the re retailers out there probably are to like jumping around and the FBI now has a nice numbers because they know it may not be triggered to a short-term bomb for Black Friday and shopping for the CDP exactly exactly are you would hope that it would make a good news about the holiday season ... but you know in the unless we see jobs really picked up ... and wages start to gain Consumers Justin have the money to spend ... it's interesting to look at these numbers because these are sort of mind blowing numbers than you did get to this this high that we haven't seen since this is before the recession ... and it was that you think is driving ... people to sae to say there are more upbeat then I mean isn't really just only listen to the latest unemployment figures of what he think that a ten minus also stock prices of picking up making and time after the Fed announced QE three ... and this OS to be improving is on the housing sector you know people if they ... believe that their home prices are friendly and the stabilizing are inching up again ... they feel wealthier and present it makes them feel happy about the economy ... to a starkly as we head into another election year and toward an election in the final weeks before election ... day people sometimes just feel more optimistic because they know things are Guinea get resolved one way or the other and we will have a somewhat ... back and forth a little bit and I think ... I think you make a good plan especially for this year because we almost never have ... this problem where the B of all these ... budget questions that need to be answered and prevent everyone knows they're not can it be answered until after the election and so ... as we get closer to the election for most people is gonna be ... ok and am learning about these tax and spending questions resolved on ... to your right that I think ... the elections Trulli having an ... oversized influence on sentiment right now with the next report that will see and so what are the weather economists say about like you know is that the likelihood ... that this continued upward march of confidence will continue on at the end of the month will get out the final reading on consumer sentiment which is done by the University of Michigan survey of consumers ... and will also get the Conference board's ... consumer confidence number they just do that once a month ... and that is much more driven by how people ... on the job ... market are doing ... all right Kathleen thanks for being with this more from you on that has swept the should be ... no problem right there are sixteen thousand count from sixteen thousand books out there on Abraham Lincoln but ... you know what the market thinks there's room for a few more as well the movie will be telling you why when we come back to the second ... we hear ... me was oh ... and he's been shown that and and and rain ... Nm of this nation under God ... shall have a new birth of freedom ... the government of the people ... buy them ... looking at a clip from the movie weekend from Steven Spielberg that is due out in November Mayo things about Lincoln coming out as well and clean a few new books out of the sixteen thousand books written ... about Abraham Lincoln but what continues to drive people to think they can provide something new Stefanie Cohen has been writing about this festival Wall Street Journal she's Joinus here on Lunch Break it's to ... tell ... us ... about link in a little bit I mean it there is this quote from his stories two-state ... Quay St ... of the American dream he saved America and that there that people continue to be compelled by this man ... ticket to write more books about him what what what isn't about Lincoln that drives these narratives so much ... I'm I think is just part of the mythology of the country and that he was in a boring log cabin in ways I feel him from very little ... education and humble beginnings and we actually did become president prefer to perfectly fit for ... the apology that we created ourselves in is ... really accessible through ... a lot of readers aware that from another county fathers are not his mother presence here that were ... born to create wealth ... I don't see Madison ... come ... like us yes red isn't as easily identifiable as a very good point that is a new book coming out ... of her Hillary up holding the post but in the hope of shake up the dinner this month called rise to greatness Abraham Lincoln America's most perilous year were looking in a cover that book now ... I how this all all for us ... to go about ... finding something new the seventy two the very concise place ... of Abraham Lincoln's life ... well I think that what's ... the what ... what doctor strategy generally is not bringing them and in fact the link unnecessarily hard to do at this point yet there's a little that you can actually say as we knew what he does what he did was hurt in the construction will come ... to a stitch just of a three-year interval a all the facets of Lincoln ... that you have in ... mind deeply and day by day so that you can see him as a politician and as a diplomat and as a father and ... husband and someone who suffers from depression and he kind of put them all together and ... said this in the year that he went from being a good president integrate has been this is why he's ... remember the with the here and the years eighteen sixty to its insiders and when the sun the losses on the typhoid he took command of the Union Army is to turn the tide on this warning ... issued in an supplication proclamation out ... a lot of time ... and ran for his remember I'm new ... ad for previously existing union ... but he was also you know a father and has been enough I think but that didn't really read the book the stricken ... how has the public how can these books sold in India must be continued demand in us that the sector people who buy everything we can related to keep time this market I mean there are but the areas that have ... really been Houseman with an will succeed downright ... I visit the monument constructed tells about this that that all the books awareness that ... I'm that that that Ford's Theater Center for Education Washington it's kind of symbolic to you know to ... make the drive home the point that I'm ... Noble just ECB interest in him and it's three stories high of thirty four ... he and the heiress power of the actual books themselves but now it's no nonsense and is modeled after ours yet know it if it covers the Nikkei two hundred and fifty books a pick up the rights to that are actually in print that repeat ... going up ... and earthy notes the actual looks at the end of the metal to metal stocks are some fun fall down but they do in my house right right I said the guard takes a much more on that in your insight today should be with us here on Lunch Break ... though we come back so if you think you cannot dance well then you may wanna check out the new Xbox game dance central three ... it's back to back we'll be talking about thirty seconds thanks so much ... the ... the the the ... so if you think you can dance when the new Xbox game dance until three well it has got your back it's only at the back of the author of ... this next story Michael Steele peace with this right now ... he said you're an embarrassment weddings into he got the scheme is true I think what a lot of guys just don't know what to do for ... an hour and as for the wedding so as the final moment it is first up stuck together stuck together in my talents to touch the review for ... three hours during a big U turn should be a game to help yeti been testing out that this is to prevent a due out next week the Xbox three sixty ... were looking at some of the moves right now you can play in um ... odd looks I was putting all this especially Cameron ball which helps to learn how to dance explain how the whole thing works with the Xbox next ... to a connected the three D camera and attacked her body movements ... to have to hold the controller known to dance and that he just can't sleep with my white pants ... and and and watches what were your body parts are ... and will tell you if your arm is off the leg isn't in the wrong mission ... to the relief read up on Wikipedia ... I you choose what type of debt still alarming or multiple things like everything from neo said I fear the electric slide of mockery not to ... buy dinner dance dance Gangnam Style to ... get this this new version again has forty songs and Canon Kazman seventy used to ... like it or a few months ago study of a full range of prices ... it took about but it is compared to some regular dance lessons because you compare the new wind today a studio took lessons from a life human being as well ... also feedback together videogame versus ... you know the like the spot to get from a dance instructor when they say ... job well that that's the real dance classes and to continue his alias go is really a lot of fun it's completely different ... but what I found was that you have to ... be kind of awkward ... you first start and with the dancing does that helps you get through that terrible really ... awful operates the ... one she like Woods's e g specific to the new protests in the day ... they they they have YMCA and have a really lead to a twenty five thousand YMCA ... also ... they have the election so I and and so they they did ... this for to him as all these classes and that ... the meaning of a barn but always wanted to put that was what is the seed on YMCA ... because the left of the yet to lay out ... the empty at all the money spent on again the can was on one more time they have ... not seen have been eyeing a fall ... plus you can use your ... out there ... is a great Jason with each ... other via gains Michael the internet without blushing and so impress ... other videogames out there this would try and teach in this instance Tasman is what what else what else can look for ... and was a new game called pop ... the hip-hop experience that comes out in the end of next month and I'm I'm interested in what's going on ... and who is behind these games and they have actual choreographers out there ... working on the stains of mortgages for like ... and what techniques behind it all out its fashion they have nine as the grammar for is working on this game and if I'm a motion capture suit ... and a dance routines ... in a motion capture suit which animates the characters so ... beloved ... of deaths and and how ... unfair impress ... me do this he decides minutes I tried to do on camera ... that what you practice were headed back to it I have a good weekend to think this and it's too pricey when Michael Moore an off duty section from him ... tomorrow I can call it sex and comedy at up to an Oscar ... well a new film the session's is trying to find out Rachel and it's ... just write about this and she actually talked ... to the man behind film she's with us right now ... Rachel I I really fascinating guy behind this movie now and described the plot of the film does for people who may be thinking like ... when the world you know we can of Hollywood sex in the same time he added that the film is based on the true story of a highly avenger dynasty Mark O'Brien ... who and because of polio was confined to an iron on for most of his life ... and at the age of thirty ... he gamely endeavor to lose his virginity ... with the help of an intrepid sex therapist played by Helen Hunt ... and what the hell I'm on right now ... I'm ... and so that's where the narrative arc of the family yet and to add this to mean ... at Sundance in January people are referring to as the iron among movie ... and it sounds late dad Barry Graham ... today depressing kind of subject matter but ... the director Ben when he and directed comedies previously ... anti infuse their subject matter with a lot of humor and heart ... and actually in the audience was laughing hysterically at certain plants that so critical when you go to see films always for me is that you are on the ego and you don't know what to expect the contents because the subject matter might be ... no alone grim you think it leases going to be any kitchen laughing ... pretty quickly do they do this town ... yet he said he's though is that a worry that people aren't inning get it that there's an early laugh you knew you see this guy he's talking that the difficulty of breathing ... and then he looks over his caregiver and he says that and then he says that crazy ... you know insane cunning get the sense that this is can be summing different this guy ... he may be iam nearly paralyzed from the neck down that he's got ... a sharp wit and extensive fewer and Jag he's very charismatic now the costumes really they're the two main characters in this film in when they set out to cast these two roles the male role and that that that that the novel there disrupted by Helen Hunt who Necas person to calm and matter the Porter which they picked him Rachel ... and ... he's the sheriff it really mattered but he said he passed on hikes first two plays of dry and ... and to add a ... hawks is kind of an actor's actor he's been in Winners pony was nominated for an OS care and he said that ... having him in place really attracted a broad ... array of ... talent in to the project and Hawks actually ... weighs on instrumental in getting a lot of his actor friends to play some of the of the rules and found ... our early Oscar buzz a mean this this seems to have the potential written all over it's a it's a difficult film but one has done well ... to be an incredibly beautiful film what are people what's twenty percent ... yet mean it's it's been generating Oscar buzz ever since that moment it screened at the Sundance Film passed on people are on their feeding I think that ... I'm ... you know it's it's a he's sixty six years old person on he's been toiling in Hollywood for over thirty years so ... this is his biggest ... down the admin for someone like that to be discovered at Sundance which is known previously down on she knew ... the filmmakers in their twenties is the really big TL and I think the performances ... aam has been getting a lot of buzz buzz Helen Hunt and John Hawkes what about marketing and movie like this right because that's that's tricky anyhow what you show on the movie poster to show God this line in bed ... the people that it's one film that he showed just how high people think it's another film that ... it's a it's a guy friend was its virginity that thing for you know another completely different jars so ... how are they walking that line yet I think the trick is to not alienate anybody who might come into this movie and and enjoy it cuz it's not what you think ... it is when you hear ... many an iron lung it's it's about a relationship so I think they're really ... smiley trying to play out the relationship aspect that screen ... this man and his therapists and how they together you know achieved ... something idle spoiler alert here so pretty fingers and is going on here this but ... the actual middle saying when it typically does was present how to handle the sex scene ... um that was a very big challenge is he didn't want anyone to have that cringe factor you know ... watching people in and ... doing the actual TV so what he did was he invented a character ... father Brandon which is that a certain hippy dippy Catholic priest played by William H Macy who is just so funny and so ... on the dirty D tells come out in the confessional which makes it done ... really humorous you know it's it's not the context for you'd expect someone to be ... talking ... on ... her way about yet yet the river and the news to the land ... and the nineteen ninety three of those more during the session at things for now I'm interested in ... I we come back this time for her mansion segment will be telling you about the football leap into the homes of college coaches in football basketball Hall tricked out they are ... but that makes them the tricky to sell it back in thirty seconds ... ay ay ay ay ay ... I ... the beest lunch break I'm Wendy downs putting greens volleyball court outrageous man caves ... these are all steeple college coaches homes that ... makes it kind of tricky for resale sometimes even talking about this and they write about this new ... mansion segment that is out ... this weekend is out today section ... everytime uses the day with us to carve out time The high pierces the deputy editor of mention ... these are some amazing pattern was just coming to the lay of the land of the types of places for talking about the most about why Chiquita so I'm sure ... we have to imagine in these homes are printing painting a lot of people it's not just for people to lift and giving people a people college Roosters or cunning recruits and their parents are coming thick with the players and sound theoretically take some time to clean thing people say look you didn't see a lot and thinks they since we beat for ensuring that ... there's one coaches play first and how richer when they bought a house that the rocks can support the weight of the football player because they're in a jump off his rocker then Jackson right they had to go the whole the backside the limit has bought an asset rich Rodriguez's House tells about that ... with ... the gift actually and just bought a house he is now the coach at Arizona he previously was the coach in Michigan ... and me like I said they had beautiful town and this this Rodriguez receive its her role at ... making this issue place for injured painting ... and they they had billiard room game room school theaters in an ... extra bedrooms just to house the players and whenever could stay overnight appearance common swelling they're all staying in the same ... he does is make it though for resale with some of these these and added an mean isn't there they can take a loss because other homes around them are in our history top ... well I think the coaches are pretty smart about it urban Meyer after he sold his hair he's actually have a house in Gainesville on the market ... he ruled out that Peter Rankin private meeting with and felt ... him kick the can worry about that how Weber front the two also at when playing coach and that Florida ... this ... alligator head on display in the belief that feeling plaintiffs in the ... absence of doubt I will want to stop the little guy and a few Frazier told Mrs that I just read that phrase tells about the story this house has actually been new coach at Ole Miss and has a beautiful teal forthcoming he bought in Oxford ... what hasn't been very good advice because it is as you may know ... in this for the average tenure of a head coach is five point one years within the removing a lack of ... the few trees came from the University of Arkansas on site parking Hackathons staple for this and he and his wife were there for two years ... they rented out to think buying ... is to rent a ... three percent ... if you do well he may get recruited go somewhere else if you do badly dependability either way moving that's right technique savings might fit it perfectly carry she said if you will lose ... a few lessons you ... are a Houston not ... Houston that ... he is the former coach at Ole Miss and ... he actually has two houses on the market and in Oxford he's currently an analyst for CBS Sports that his two homes are within one for one point six million and one for one point three million ... that this will be a very hard fell because ... as you may know Oxford is a Beery very small counts on in the ... metropolis and ... and in a lot of these college towns the coaches path is the most expensive house in the market ... so you may have been a lot of gawkers to if the answer twenty oh and see the coach's house that to get real serious buyers who are able to pay at that level ... if the channel is a real citizens with the pre screened people a deal in fact taken a liking to me now ... me and the display window shop ... is the actual buyer that was talk about this to me is that the person who was the stuff Gator head ... the person who's gonna come in and say ... I love this team I love the skirt and I live in his home on Lake Dalton in group B ... was unwilling to someone who's looking for ... the best home ... on and that's right they're looking for a great home this well and they don't seem to be then the group beat any any ... I haven't seen any case in which the new coach moved into the four coaches house that ... doesn't seem to be working ... the coaches are smart enough that when they moved ... a strip away the stuff that makes it to teen oriented so ... Urban Meyer before they left and for Ohio State ... became cant that turquoise and blue back in the act or neutral color so when her this change their town that's how they got rid of it like oversized furniture for everybody and so forth that's right that's right what are some of the most outrageous very quickly things that you guys all the some of these that have just had ... with the Botin trophy room with lots and on to helm a stand and trophies then breadth and painters and pennants and ... it when you walk in it it's a little bit overwhelmingly me think that you're going to buy that ... but the me if I'm eating way ... with their quick think it's a good thing me and Cade he's learned a volleyball courts and an English pugs billiard earings dean rooms ... amazing pool since winning docks with both and ... home theaters that are currently trick or that of the before and after that I'll write more in the Manson said today that the covenant being with us ... that the for today's the vs day lunch break we'll see you next week I'll be back on Monday at noon stick around to see Simon Constable on digits and with that with the rest of the day and weekend ...